Subscribe to Nuclear Vault bit.ly/Subscrib... Nuclear Might: Ready but Safe by Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, 1352d Photographic Group Publication date 1965 Special Film Project 1348 by the United States Air Force
Several tests of nuclear weapons have however produced a greater yield then expected (Castle Bravo being the worst) or have resulted in greater then expected fallout or related incidents (venting from undergound test for example)
Maybe accidental launch but as far as detonation it is not a surprise at all. Many safeguards and things have to be lined up just right to set one off.
@@braddywarbucks are you kidding only a simple switch have prevented a detonation of one of the broken arrow incident the one where the bomb have landed close to an house
@don s I still work in this field as an engineer on "devices" etc . Fermilab etc. No war is possible using old fashion "devices".. There are new one s like Samuel Cohen's neutron device.. Lets pray no more of this madness.. Military industrial complex is hungry for a new cold war 2.0 . Quite obvious.. Be well Sir. שלום
After viewing this, this seems to have been produced in response to the movies "Doctor Strangelove" and "Fail Safe." The Air Force was trying to say what was depicted in those films could never happen. But after the nuclear accident over Palomares, Spain, the Chrome Dome flights were stopped.
Did you guys see the black Captain in charge of nuclear missiles? Someone should do a series pointing out all the black leaders in these old military videos because I see them all the time but the narrative they are teaching people today is that the black man wasn't allowed to achieve in this country.
Back in the good old days when America was still a great place to live unlike the disaster it now has become. I was born the year this film was released in 1965.
This is from 1965. The Palomares incident happened just a few months later (in January 1966). The cargo proved quite elusive till it was finally recovered.
And in 1957, a 10-megaton, Mark 17 hydrogen bomb was accidentally dropped east of Albuquerque, NM. The conventional explosives detonated and made a crater 12-feet deep and 25-feet wide. Only one head of cattle died...
I think the bomb principally shown in the film is a B28RE, the RE standing for retarded external carriage. The B28 was the first family of bombs with myriad configurations for all manner of weapons carriage and delivery.
@@nicholasmaude6906 Yep. Much less aerodynamic for internal carriage. Has more fuzing options, the most important of which was laydown mode. The RE version could be carried externally and was more aerodynamic for supersonic applications, right? Thanks for the comment not a lot of people with knowledge of nuclear weapons these days. Any idea why both external carried B28 versions and the B43 were developed? They both have about the same weight, yield options, fuzing options, etc? I know the B43 could be carried externally by the Hustler, and was the only bomb that bird could so carry, aside from its huge principle drop tank/weapon. Maybe specifically for that?
@@hckyplyr9285 "Any idea why both external carried B28 versions and the B43 were developed?" The external variants of the B28 (The EX and RE) were designed for tactical fighter-bombers that could only carry special-stores externally such as the F-100,F-101, F-104 along with the F-4 amongst other such aircraft as for the B43 it was only designed for external carriage. One last point the warhead component of the B28, the BA28, was also used as the warhead in the MGM-13 Mace and AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missiles.
@@nicholasmaude6906 The B43 was also carried by fighter bombers. In fact it is described as the bomb carried by the widest variety of platforms in the US arsenal. I still don't understand why both were made for essentially identical purposes. But I appreciate your response. Maybe I'm missing something. One was a hedge on the other failing? Both were very widely produced.
@@hckyplyr9285 I'm not certain why the B43 was developed after the B28 was (The B28 was developed in parallel with the UCRL B27) but the B28 seemed to been more versatile as the W28 physics package in addition to being made for external and internal carriage using different forebodes and aft-bodies was also used as a missile warhead. The W43 physics package IIRC was considered for use as a missile warhead but wasn't in the end.
9:37...' i caught my missus in bed with my best friend and now i want to destroy all civilization '...the other guy... ' yeah mate not before we get you checked out by the doc'
There have been accidents involving nuclear weapons, but as yet no accidental detonations. 1945 through 2023 is nearly eighty years - doesn't lack of accidental explosion illustrate that such safety procedures and mechanisms that there have been and are continue to be effective? More vital is surely the controls that exist to prevent inappropriate deliberate use of these weapons by the senior military commanders responsible for them or the person, like the US president, who is the ultimate arbiter of their use authorising such use inappropriately. I worry that an individual like Trump/Putin had/has such power. I suspect that they don't.
Wow! The movie they're evidently referring to has to be Dr.Strangelove lol!!! I guess it really hit home to have a worst case scenario and the what if's occur??? SMFH! Propaganda machine saves the day and makes everyone happy and feel comfy cozy Huh? At the moment in 2022 we have just this scenario and a useless broken down corrupt government that could make this all happen unfortunately. Let's hope it doesn't! "Let's Go Brandon" All the Way!
Any THINKING person would much rather have Biden in charge of the nuclear football than Trump or any of his ilk. Don was very kind in his reply to your comment.
Only luck has saved the US so far. At least one accidental drop did arm as it fell. At a rate of more than 1 accident a year it was not the smartest idea to run around with live nukes.